Alum Cave Trail foot bridge crossing stream, Grassy Patch, Tennessee
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Alum Cave Trail Foot Bridge, II-F-(1)-10913, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Foot trail bridges; footlogs
Between Chimneys and gap, showing forest reproduction
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Between Chimneys and gap. Showing forest reproduction.Old Indian Gap Road, III-R-12712, History - Historic Roads and Trails
Boy drawing water from the well
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Boy drawing water from the well.Well; near Smoky Mountain Academy; Sevier County, TN, III-A-Hse-12203, History - Artifacts
Fish pools, Chimneys campground, details showing fish rearing pools, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Fish pools, Chimneys campground. Details showing fish rearing pools. Fish Hatchery, Chimneys, I-E-Fish-917, Natural Features - Fauna - Fish.
Milas Messer Blacksmith Shop, Cove Creek, Haywood County, North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View from the north. Note the sorghum furnace in the foreground. Milas Messer Blacksmith Shop, Cove Creek, Haywood County, North Carolina III-B-10403, History - Buildings
1937-06-19
View of mountains through snow covered trees along Clingmans Dome Road, 1937
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Along Clingmans Dome Road. Mountain Road, Winter, I-A-MR-399, Natural Features - Mountains - Views from Newfound Gap and Clingmans.
Showing eroded condition of manway
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Showing eroded condition of manway...Appalachian Trail; Indian Gap to Clingmans Dome, II-Th-AT-11589, Physical Facilities - Trails - Appalachian Trails
Detail of cribbing, before being repaired, Mingus Creek Mill, Building No. 150, 1937
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Detail of cribbing, before being repaired.Mingus Creek Mill; Building No. 150, II-B-(5)-Mingus-3091, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved -Mingus Mill
1937-05-19
Tourists on bridge, Chimneys Foot Bridge No. 1, West Prong, Little Pigeon River
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tourists on bridge. Chimneys Foot Bridge No. 1, West Prong, Little Pigeon River II-F-(1)-10924, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Foot trail bridges, footlogs
From knob on west end, looking southeast, Moss Yater Tract
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
From knob on west end, looking southeast.Moss Yater Tract, III-E-12802, History - Evidence in Lawsuits
Detail of penstock, before being repaired, Mingus Creek Mill, Building No. 150, 1937
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Detail of penstock, before being repaired.Mingus Creek Mill; Building No. 150, II-B-(5)-Mingus-3089, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved -Mingus Mill
1937-05-19
Distant view of mountains through trees along Clingmans Dome Road, snow in foreground
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Along Clingmans Dome Road. Mountain Road, Winter, I-A-MR-396, Natural Features - Mountains - Views from Newfound Gap and Clingmans.
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Taken while grading was in progress, before planting.Davenport Gap Parking Area, II-P-Gen-11415, Physical Facilities - Parking Areas - Miscellaneous Parking Areas
Miss Louisa Walker churning butter in a cedar churn
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Miss Louisa Walker churning butter in a cedar churn.Churn; Walker Sisters Place, III-A-Hse-12168, History - Artifacts
View from west. Ephraim Bales Barn, Roaring Fork, Building No. 137, HABS No. Tenn. 117, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View from west.Ephraim Bales Barn; Roaring Fork; Building No. 137; HABS No. Tenn. 117, II-B-(5)-4049, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved
1935-06-27
Little River, Elkmont Bridge
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Present structure and sige for park P 596; Upstream elevation... Little River, Elkmont Bridge, II-F-(4)-LR-11133, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Bridges on Little River Road
View of Smokemont Amphitheatre stage, Smokemont, North Carolina
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
General view showing stage. Taken soon after construction.Smokemont Amphitheatre, II-A-Amph-10827, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Amphitheaters and campfire circles, campground shelters
Little River, Elkmont Bridge
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Present structure and site for park P 596; Looking northwest...Little River, Elkmont Bridge, II-F-(4)-LR-11134, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Bridges on Little River Road
Ruts worn in rock of stream bed by wagons
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Note size of rut worn in stone by wagons.Spence Deadening Branch Road; Cades Cove, TN, III-R-12770, History - Historic Roads and Trails
Parapet wall, detail showing stone masonry, note tool marks and drill holes, workers and automobiles in background, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-A-Wall-1443, Physical Facilities - Minor Structures - Walls,Walls; Parapet, Parapet wall, detail showing stone masonry. Note tool marks and drill holes.
1935-06-07
Tunnel No. 2, Newfound Gap Highway, Lower tunnel
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Lower portal.Tunnel No. 2; Newfound Gap Highway; Lower tunnel, II-S-11529, Physical Facilities - Roads - Structures on roads (tunnels, trail underpass, box culverts, trestles)
Details of islands and parapet wall, Newfound Gap Parking Area
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Details of islands and parapet wall.Newfound Gap Parking Area, II-P-NFG-11431, Physical Facilities - Parking Areas - Newfound Gap Parking Area
Loop Tunnel Model, Newfound Gap Highway
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Views of models of the loop.Loop Tunnel - Model; Newfound Gap Highway, II-S-11516, Physical Facilities - Roads - Structures on roads (tunnels, trail underpass, box culverts, trestles)
View from the east. Ephraim Bales House, Roaring Fork, Building No. 135, HABS No. Tenn. 117, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View from the east.Ephraim Bales House; Roaring Fork; Building No. 135; HABS No. Tenn. 117, II-B-(5)-4034, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved
1935-06-27
Detail of gudgeon and bearing with bearing cap removed, Cable Mill, 1936
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-B-(5)-Cable Mill-1883, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved - Cable Mill Buildings,Cable Mill; Building No. 173, Detail of gudgeon and bearing with bearing cap removed.
1936-05-26
Three of the Walker Sisters ginning cotton
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Three of the Walker Sisters ginning cotton: Left to right: Hettie, Martha, Louisa.Cotton Ginning; Walker Sisters, III-A-Hse-12237, History - Artifacts
Leige Oliver Barn, Cades Cove, Building No. 171, Barn from the east, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
II-B-(5)-2069, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved,Leige Oliver Barn; Cades Cove; Building No. 171, Barn from the east.
Ruts worn in rock of stream bed by wagons
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Note ruts worn in rock of stream bed by wagons.Spence Deadening Branch Road; Cades Cove, TN, III-R-12767, History - Historic Roads and Trails
Mr. John Jones mill operator, Mingus Mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mr. Jones was operating this mill at the time the photograph was taken.Jones, Mr. John; The miller at Mingus Creek Mill, III-P-12367, History - Mountain People
Newfound Gap Highway Bridge No. 1
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Project 1A1: Downstream elevation... Stone work completed.Newfound Gap Highway Bridge No. 1; Walker Prong, II-F-(4)-NFG-11074, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Bridges on Newfound Gap Road
Mr. John Jones mill operator, Mingus Mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mr. Jones was operating this mill at the time the photograph was taken.Jones, Mr. John; The miller at Mingus Creek Mill, III-P-12368, History - Mountain People
Little River west of Laurel Brook, Little River Temporary Campground
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Little River west of Laurel Brook...View looking north in upper section before alteration...A. Westhead in foreground.; Little River Temporary Campground; II-C-Gen-10859, Physical Facilities - Campgrounds and Picnic Areas - Miscellaneous campgrounds;Little River west of Laurel Brook...View looking north in upper section before alteration...A. Westhead in foreground.
1935-06-13
View of Thomas Ridge and Smokemont highway from Newfound Gap, snow on slopes and trees, 1937
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View of Thomas Ridge and Smokemont highway from Newfound Gap. Newfound Gap, I-A-NFG-476, Natural Features - Mountains - Views from Newfound Gap.
View of water gate from the north bank before restoration, Mingus Creek Mill, Building No. 150, 1937
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
View of water gate from the north bank before restoration.Mingus Creek Mill; Building No. 150, II-B-(5)-Mingus-3084, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved -Mingus Mill
1937-05-09
Boiling sorghum
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Boiling sorghum, general view.Sorghum Making, III-F-9831, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
The bark mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The bark mill.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12652, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Standing, Steve Cole
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Steve Cole and His Bees, III-F-9832, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Two men cutting cane
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Cutting the cane.Sorghum Making, III-F-9829, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Haring a groundhog hide.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Hairing a groundhog hide. Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12637, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Tunnel No. 2, Newfound Gap Highway, Lower tunnel
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Lower portal; Detail of stone masonry arch ring.Tunnel No. 2; Newfound Gap Highway; Lower tunnel, II-S-11534, Physical Facilities - Roads - Structures on roads (tunnels, trail underpass, box culverts, trestles)
Showing road alignment, looking downgrade
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Showing road alignment... looking downgrade... Bridge finished to belt course.Newfound Gap Highway Bridge No. 2; Little Pigeon River, II-F-(4)-NFG-11082, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Bridges on Newfound Gap Road
Mr. Jones, the miller, bagging meal at Mingus Mill, Mingus Creek Mill, Building No. 150, 1935
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mr. Jones, the miller, bagging meal at Mingus Mill. See also III-_12363-12368 inc.Mingus Creek Mill; Building No. 150, II-B-(5)-Mingus-3069, Physical Facilities - Buildings - Historic buildings being preserved -Mingus Mill
1935
A hide from a work steer
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A hide from a work steer...this is only one-half the whole hide. Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12639, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Safe, used for food storage
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
These safes are used for the storage of food... The pierced work in the tin panels allows air to circulate in the safe, but prevents flies from getting at the food.Safe"", III-A-Hse-12189, History - Artifacts
Foot trail bridge No. 1, over West Prong of Little Pigeon River, on Chimneys elevation, Chimneys Foot Bridge No. 1
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Foot trail bridge No. 1, over West Prong of Little Pigeon River, on Chimneys elevation, looking east, work done by CCC, completed in 1936. Cost (in connection with Bridge #2): mandays- $640, materials- $139.02, total- $779.02. NOTE: This bridge in connection with Bridge #2 and should be about 2/3 total cost... downstream elevation., Picture used in Eakin investigation... Chimneys Foot Bridge No. 1 II-F-(1)-10920, Physical Facilities - Footlogs and Bridges - Foot trail bridges, footlogs
Winter scene from Newfound Gap Highway showing Chimney Tops in distance
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Winter scene from Newfound Gap Highway showing Chimney Tops in distance. View coming down the mountain.The Chimney Tops - Winter; Newfound Gap Highway, II-A-CHIM-11978, Natural Features - Mountains - Views of and from the Chimney Tops
Ashley Rayfield Tub Mill
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Detail from the side of: 1 - the tub or horizontal water wheel; 2 - the shaft which supports the upper stone; 3 - the chute which raises or lowers the bridge-tree in which the shaft is set, thus regulating the fineness of the meal.Ashley Rayfield Tub Mill G-34; Injun Creek, near Emerts Cove, TN, III-M-12543, History - Mills and Milling
Dressing or currying the hide
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dressing (or currying) the hide: the hide is dressed only on the pelt side. Today, a currying knife with an edge similar to a cabinet scraper is used. The old tanners in the mountains often used a scythe blade for this operation...this tool not having the keen edge of the currying knife, left the hide rough and shaggy.Tanning; Milas Messer Place; Cove Creek NC, III-F-12650, History - Farming - Farming (Sorghum making; bee keeping; haying; orchard; tobacco growing; oxen plowing; clearing land; plowing; pigs with yokes; butchering; mountain farm tanning; coopering)
Toll Dish
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
If a man took his corn to the mill and the Miller was not there, he could grind it himself, for the operation of the common tub mill is a simple affair, and buildings of all kinds were seldom locked. It was the custom to pay 1/8th of the grain ground as toll for the grinding. . . Thistoll measured with a toll dish which usually measured 1/8th of a bushel. The photograph shows such a toll dish found at Mingus Creek Mill, Smokemont, NC . . . Note the N.C. burned into the wood, showing that it was officially measured and recorded.Millin; Toll Dish; (1 Gallon), III-M-12525, History - Mills and Milling
Detail of gable (interior), Rockford Shults Corn Crib, Head of Webb Creek, under Snag Mountain, Tennessee
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Detail of gable (interior). The gable logs are to the left. To the right are the rib poles, which take the place of rafters, and on which the rived oal roof boards are laid. Rockford Shults Corn Crib I-5, Head of Webb Creek, under Snag Mountain III-B-10671, History - Buildings
1937-04-24
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